Uncle Pug.

[landlocked]

Uncle Pug once bubbled in another thread...
....Say! I have got a great idea... instead of turning this into a thread about me... why don't you start a thread about me!

So here it is. The subject, Uncle Pug.

What I think I know. He lives in the pacific northwest. He has an old diesel boat named Uncle Pug. His main dive buddy is his son-in-law, Shane. By trade, he is probably a pastor of some kind. Deeply religious at a personal level. He helps out his neighbors, a real nice guy. Tried to get his wife into diving with bad results. A sad part of an otherwise happy man. He has been diving since BC (before Creasteau). He does his own gas blending in his garage! He is an extremely gifted writer, teacher and debater. All in all, he is one of those guys that can do anything from fixing his own boat and falling his own trees to writing a highly professional essay on the arts. His only fault, just a touch of a well deserved ego in regards to his.... well a little about his diving but mostly his... writing. But then don't we all sufer a little bit of ego?

The controversy. Some time back he took a DIR tech 1 class. He has claimed that, because of the diving he was doing, it has saved his life. Due to his skills (as mentioned above) and perhaps partially a carry over from his ecclesiastical duties, he has taken to successfully promoting DIR concepts and training with a very capable evangelical zeal. In so doing, and perhaps in part because of his methods, he has been accussed of being the wizard behind the curtain, been voted by this board as the official PR guy for GUE and has been sworn at in asteriks. (Oh, the religious ironies here are so thick!)

You all want it, UP suggested it and here it is. A thread about Uncle Pug!

 

[Scubaroo]

Here's a scoop:

I don't think his real name is "Uncle Pug"

 

[O-ring]

I don't think his real name is "Uncle Pug"

It is actually Nigel Persimmon Pugsley III...no kidding.

 

[Spectre]

bengiddins once bubbled...
I don't think his real name is "Uncle Pug"

His dad was known as Uncle Pug.

So he's actually Uncle Pug Jr. Or perhaps as O-Ring points out, Uncle Pug III. Shall we start calling him Trey?

Oh... one thing you forgot about in his description landlocked...

Ornery old coot

 

[O-ring]

Spectre, there's an idea... UP3

 

[The Chairman]

UP yours!

When he is happy he should be referred to as "Sunny Side" UP.

He's not from the country so we can't refer to him as HickUP.

The cable on the hoist used to extricate him from the the frigid waters of the PNW is reffered to as a "pick UP line".

He gets confused if you tell him "I'll watch your back, UP".

He's way too big, so I could never throw UP.

And in that vein, the usefullness of this thread is definately a "toss up"!!!

Yes, I could go on, but I must fess UP. I am on a customer site, and possibly should return to doing what they are paying me for. Before they give me my come UPence. (Now I am so behind, I will just have to play catch UP).

 

[TCDiver1]

O-ring once bubbled...


It is actually Nigel Persimmon Pugsley III...no kidding.

If that's true, no wonder UP is so tough on this board. Probably got beat up a lot as a kid

That was great landlocked, here are some other theories as to UP's identity.

The swarthy little english guy on the infomercials selling whatever.
The name given by o-ring if true, bears credence to this theory.

Is the sole heir to the fortune amassed by the guy who figured out that persimmon wood is very hard and would make great golf drivers. His middle name is in honor of his late, great grandpappy Pugsley. Therefore due to early exposure to golfing greats such as Walter Hagen and Arnold Palmer, is wise beyond his years. Golf is a thinking mans sport after all.

Uncle Pug is actually a computer program developed by proponents of GUE/DIR, to further the reach of their programs. This progam would obviously contain cutting edge AI (thats artificial intelligence not assistant instructor) that is capable of sharp wit and of generating ghost posters & posts to further the cause of his designers, as in "i went diving with UP the other day & he was great." To further the illusion the designers were careful to design progam parameters which show normal human charateristics from time to time such as ego, humor and smite.

Uncle Pugs posts are so focused, concise and to the point that they are almost certainly computer generated. That's it, UP is a computer. Wonder why the computer is saying dive computers rot your brain? Hmmm, i might be wrong.

 

[The Chairman]

that is capable of sharp wit and...

Or that it's just another Microsoft product???

What would happen if we re-booted him in the middle of a rant? "You have one rant pending! To continue rant press a key, to discontinue rant press any other key."

 

[Spectre]

NetDoc once bubbled...
What would happen if we re-booted him in the middle of a rant? "You have one rant pending! To continue rant press a key, to discontinue rant press any other key."

[pressing the 'any other' key].

I'm sorry...rant can't be discontinued at this time. Please wait a few moments and try again.
To continue rant, press <continue>. To infiniately attempt to try and discontinue rant, press the <good luck> key

So does that mean if we push Pug's buttons fast enough he'll turn blue?

 

[TCDiver1]

Hmmm?????? He doesn't seem to lock up like Windows does.

Maybe he's a Unix based program.